peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Well, I didn't say that they "used violence as a means of control as a matter of course" - though of course thats what they did, at least with regards to attempts to unionize (which in the most extreme example led to an actual battle being fought) and in terms of relations with the Native communities.
What I meant was that the policies around race, around eugenics (especially) and probably the idea of lebensraum itself all have clear inspiration from what the US had done in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ah, I was thinking more of the 20th Century......